Best music movie continuity mistakes of all time

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The Thing Called Love picture

Continuity mistake: After Miranda sings for the hotel manager, her guitar case closes and zips itself in a split-second.

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Roller Boogie picture

Continuity mistake: When Linda Blair deliberately knocks a plate of desserts into one of her suitor's lap, the tray hits him directly in the crotch and the camera shows this. Then there is a cut to Linda Blair's face and then a cut back to the boys clothing and the scene now shows the desserts all over his suit from the shoulders down.

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Continuity mistake: Sean and Emily spend the night on a boat after her first mob. The blanket lies differently in consecutive shots. (00:45:25)

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The Red Violin picture

Continuity mistake: The young son of the Chinese owner of the violin is near-sighted and his glasses have concave lenses. When he attends the auction as an adult he is far-sighted with incredibly thick convex lenses.

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Opera picture

Continuity mistake: When he puts the pins in her eyes, evey time it is shown it's different - sometimes they are all covered in blood, sometimes only some of them or one, and sometimes there's no blood at all.

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Little Voice picture

Continuity mistake: When LV begins her big concert, she carries a microphone on a cord. But after her first song, a stand instantly appears on stage without any stage hand moving from the wings.

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Footloose picture

Continuity mistake: When Ren is dancing at the drive in, he starts dancing with a girl then stops to watch her. When he starts dancing again he moves slightly in front of her in the shot. Then in the next shot they are side by side.

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Get on Up picture

Continuity mistake: Ben Bart passed away earlier in the film but can be seen dancing on stage with the character Gertrude, at a James Brown concert where he is performing "I Got Soul (Super Bad) ". (01:46:00)

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Suggested correction: During that sequence, they intercut James in his gold jumpsuit, with long hanging-down hair, and James in a black-and-white checked vest, doing the same song. In the black-and-white vest era, Ben Bart is still alive, so the dancing could have been from that era.

While that does seem to be the case, it should be pointed out that Ben Bart died in 1968, but the song James Brown is singing, "Super Bad", was recorded in 1970.

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Blinded by the Light picture

Continuity mistake: Javed and his father are in the car and they need Javed's mother and sisters to help push the car to get it started. There is an ornament that looks like a traffic light hanging from the rear view mirror in the car, which can be seen in exterior shots of the car, but disappears when we are looking through the windscreen from inside the car. In the next scene after the car has successfully started, the rear view mirror ornament vanishes altogether.

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A Monster in Paris picture

Continuity mistake: The giant maker compound was purple when Franqcuer was created, but it turned orange when Lucille made another giant flea.

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Scooby-Doo! And Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery picture

Continuity mistake: When Shaggy and Scooby are approaching the Demon as he eats, it is shown that he is eating from a platter of hamburgers and french fries. Scooby and Shaggy bump into his table, knocking the food all on the floor. When Shaggy and Scooby quickly put all of the food back on the table, it now has french fries and hot dogs.

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Garfield: His 9 Lives picture

Continuity mistake: When Garfield introduces the Operations Data Index Elements (O.D.I.E.) system in life number 9, "Elements" changes to "Element" and several buttons vanish from the control panel between shots. (00:40:30)

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Continuity mistake: After Bugs Bunny has snipped off Elmer Fudd's pants suspender buttons, you can see Elmer's gun is directly behind him. But when Elmer picks up his gun to try and shoot Bugs, the gun is now by his foot.

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Continuity mistake: When the school house picks up a blackboard marked PIG, there are two of the giant letter blocks behind it. A red one with O and a dark purplish blue one where the letter is hidden by the walkway. But when the blackboard is knocked down and turns into a puddle of black mud, the blocks behind it are now a white block with the letter N and a light blue block with the letter L. (00:05:00)

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The Nutcracker picture

Continuity mistake: After you hear Godfather Drosselmeier off screen say, "That's not amazing!" the camera then cuts to him walking in the door to the living room. Beside the door on a mantel is a large round vase with a bushy green plant in it, and there is a picture frame on the wall with a red picture in it. Then it cuts to a close up of Drosselmeier saying "I'll show you amazing." Suddenly the vase is much smaller and shaped like a cup, the plant is now flowers, tulips by the looks of them, the picture in the frame on the wall turns blue with clouds in it, and a stand up picture frame and green box suddenly appear on the mantel next to the vase.

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Continuity mistake: The first time we see Jackson rehearsing, his brother comes to the first row to talk to him, always with his right arm down. There's a brief shot from a different angle where his arm is suddenly up. Then back to the previous angle where the arm is lowered for the rest of the scene.

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Continuity mistake: When the moderator tells Lydia "I couldn't help but notice you flinch just a little bit", Lydia has her right hand placed firmly on an armrest. When the shot cuts, her right hand is away from the arm rest. (00:09:15)

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